"Their duties focused on responding to drug poisonings but they also helped educate business owners, pick up needles & refer people to services."

This is exactly the type of program Vancouver needs as well.

To "educate business owners" I would add "and the public".
Reposted from Mariembois
If only we had a model for drug poisoning prevention/response outreach in Transit stations (and other locations) to work with, adapt, iterate... (#yeg did til last summer, when the contracts were not renewed...)

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

SMDH.

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